"Where the action is" : a conceptual and experimental evaluation of measurement, dynamics, and reputational incentives in corrupt transactions
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- I focus on a central theme in the political economy of service provision within public sector organizations: corrupt transactions, defined as bribe exchanges between frontline providers and citizens, and also known as market corruption. A distinct orientation of my approach to this issue is grounded in the idea that significant theoretical and policy strides are achievable by focusing analysis on the interpersonal dynamics between transacting parties and by leveraging social incentives within organizations. The empirical papers in this dissertation address two questions: (1) How do partners in a bribe transaction, typically unknown to each other, mitigate the risk of an exchange backfiring? To answer this question, I use micro-survey data on bribe exchanges between healthcare providers and patients in the Moroccan healthcare sector. (2) Can group-level reputational incentives reduce corrupt transactions during public service provision? To answer this question, I design and implement a field experiment in Moroccan public hospitals. In my theoretical paper, I offer a preliminary and conceptual treatment of outstanding issues in transactional corruption, provide an alternative modeling space to the conventional institutional and microeconomic approaches, and introduce concrete tools for capturing the microdynamics of these exchanges and reconsidering standard assumptions about the institutionalization of corruption in organizations.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Dakhlallah, Diana |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Thesis advisor | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Thesis advisor | Parigi, Paolo, 1973- |
| Thesis advisor | Walder, Andrew G. (Andrew George), 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Willer, Robert Bartley |
| Degree committee member | Parigi, Paolo, 1973- |
| Degree committee member | Walder, Andrew G. (Andrew George), 1953- |
| Degree committee member | Willer, Robert Bartley |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Diana Dakhlallah. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Diana Dakhlallah
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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